I've often wondered if maybe there's just a problem with certain models of phones using chemicals that are harmful to human health. Holding them next to your head would cause you to inhale any vapour they give off and lead to slightly elevated risk.
It could be the case that certain phones manufacturers are doing this inadvertently or it's something used in the manufacture of certain phones that has a small but significant risk. Anyone care to comment?
Secondly, I claimed that a coal plant releases more nuclear waste into the atmosphere than a properly controlled nuclear plant. It doesn't matter where the rest of the coal goes, the point I was trying to make is that coal produces nuclear waste too. You start out with a big pile of coal and you end up with a big pile of ash that's radioactive. You also vent a lot of waste into the atmosphere too.
I never claimed that you can't affect radioactive decay with chemical processes. The linked SciAm article doesn't seem to make that claim either.
For the record, I think both coal and nuclear are terrible ways of generating power. Unfortunately it currently seems that we, as a society, have to pick between the two.
I was making the comparison to coal because the post I was initially replying to was characterising nuclear power engineers as intrinsically unethical, so I was using coal power as a comparator to show that they're no less ethical than workers in other polluting industries.
The URL says it all. Burning stuff makes radioactive waste.
Well managed nuclear is easily better than coal. The problems around nuclear are political and economic, not technical; i.e. the politicians and the beancounters need to step aside and throw money at designing safe reactors.
The difference between coal and nuclear is that coal is designed to vent its waste into the atmosphere every day whereas with nuclear when that occurs, it's global news.
Nuclear engineers, most of them, have been supporting a deadly industry which will inevitable harm people.
That's true of almost every industry you could care to mention. A coal burning power plant will release more radiation every year than a normally operating nuclear plant will in its lifetime.
Speaking of coal, all the minerals we depend upon for our way of life are provided to us by miners. They do dangerous work deep underground and, no matter how safe we make it, some of them will die. Our entire way of life is built on their blood; our lives are indebted to theirs.
You might then ask,what the point of industry is then if it's so dangerous and deadly? Well, it builds us a civilisation that is largely free of the constraints of a life built on subsistence agriculture. It's less deadly but still not perfect, just better in some ways.
The big question here is, what about Android mods like CyanogenMod and non-official stores?
Cyanogenmod doesn't include the official Android Market app, you have to get it separately. I would assume that non-official stores like the Amazon store have licensed this patent.
So, instead, you want Apple to do all that due diligence for you, and if they cannot forsee every single future occurrence, then THEY get to assume ALL of YOUR risk
Except in this instance, it seems to be the case that Apple was successfully trolled by Lodesys and only licensed the patent for themselves, rather than all the downstream developers they knew they were distributing software too.
To my mind, that's a clear demonstration of bad faith and I would hope that these independent App Store developers manage to get something out of Apple.
Because it could make business in the EU problematic. If a foreign media organisation were to be found in contempt of court (in this case impossible as I doubt Geeknet Inc. has been served with this injunction) then the company directors could become the subject of a European Arrest Warrant.
It's the same reason that libel tourism is so popular; unless you have no intention of entering or doing business in the EU, you need to abide by the rules of our courts.
Not being mainstream media, we've no legitimate way of finding out the details of the injunction, yet we can be prosecuted if one of our forum members publishes the allegations.
I thought that in order to be bound by an injunction, you had to be served it?
As I understand it, every time a superinjunction is issued it gets sent out to a massive number of media organisations telling them that there is an injunction that they can't report on, but not revealing what the injunction is about. That's how everyone in the media knows which injunctions they can't report on.
Even in the 80s it was a load of crap. The kind of jitter that was possible from an average working (i.e. non broken) CD player would cause such tiny frequency shifts that even someone with perfect pitch couldn't hear them.
Also note that people climb extremely slowly. Over a long term, best expressed as seconds per foot rather than ft/sec.
I think you mean best expressed as inches per second or even better, cm/s. If you were moving seconds per foot then you'd be in some kind of Braid style dreamworld where motion in a given direction affected the flow of time.
In order to distribute patented GPL software you have to provide full indemnity to all downstream recipients from any litigation. If Red Hat has reached a patent settlement and thereby acquired a license from a patent troll, that license has to indemnify all downstream recipients otherwise Red Hat themselves become in breach of the GPL.
I'm amazed nobody else on/. has picked up on this. I guess place really is in the doldrums...
I've Googled for a good 5mins to no avail. The best stats I can find suggest that the average balance for a 401K is around $20k - a pitiful amount to try and buy an annuity with - but that's not what this thread is about. I found a link from 2001 claiming that 50% of Americans have no savings whatsoever, which would easily make that the modal amount.
Also, your searchbox assumes that people have been saving at that rate constantly for 22yrs. You're ignoring inflation and how some years inflation might have eroded savings and other years low inflation allowed people to build savings.
Basically, you've yet to convince me that the average American has anywhere near $20,000 in cash they can get hold of in short order to spend on things like computers.
My understanding is that the GPL carries with it patent licenses. Red Hat can't license patents for just its own customers.
Reading section 11 of GPLv3 and section 7 of GPLv2 it seems fairly clear that unless Red Hat is licensing for all downstream recipients (which would essentially mean the entire GPL ecosystem, as anyone who wants a particular patent license would just have to make a derivative from the Red Hat code) they can't distribute.
Sorry for the late reply, but that's holding the mainstream responsible for the atrocities of the minority,
Most mainstream Muslims drink, smoke and womanise. You might not believe that, but it's true. My experience of Muslims is they are as "Muslim" as most people are "Christian". It's just a basic a cultural identity.
How happy would you be if you had to defend Christianity just because your parents were Christian and you vaguely identified as such? That's the situation most Muslims find themselves in.
Again, sorry for the late reply, but the main difference between Islam and Christianity is the theological interpretation of the text.
Christianity ranges from fundamental interpretations (Westboro Baptist) all the way to Anglican (it doesn't really matter if you believe in the literal interpretation of the bible as long as you follow the "spiritual" interpretation, as explained to me). It seems to me that, due to the textual similarities, Islam can't be far behind the wide range of theological interpretations that Christianity has and henceforth is rapidly approaching a reformist / protestant revolution in a similar manner.
The people who espouse those kinds of views here in the UK organise with fascist groups like the BNP and the EDL. Not that I'm calling you a fascist, mind, I'm just pointing out that what you're saying would be right at home on a fascist march.
The main problem with your argument is that it's all in your head. Instead of "think[ing] about it" why not, you know, go out and meet some Muslims? You'll quickly find that Muslims prepared to engage in violent jihad are a tiny minority and they have very little support in the mainstream community.
As an atheist I find all religion to be unnecessary but if I'm being honest, Islam isn't that much different to Christianity. Most Muslims are Muslim in the same sense that a lot of people self-identify as Christian. They drink, they smoke, they have sex before marriage and they don't go to mosque / church. The only people who think otherwise are people who don't have much contact Muslims.
Also, blame should be directed at the media for constantly giving radical clerics who have no real support a massive platform. That crazy cleric who claims he'll be protesting the royal wedding has previous form. He has previously tried to organise a demo at Wootton Bassett, a town where mourning for soldiers often takes place due to the nearby airforce base, only to call the demo off at the last minute amid claims by local police that he'd never been in touch to organise it in the first place.
Basically, Islam4UK is a tiny organisation led by a guy who knows how to generate column inches. The newspapers give him space because it sells papers. The much bigger problem are the fascist mobilisations led by the BNP and EDL that have generated real electoral victories. That kind of stuff plays right into the hands of organisations like Islam4UK and Hizb ut-Tahrir who want Muslims to be the victims of hate attacks so they can organise them along radical, violent and sectarian lines.
Use this extension to change Chrome's UA string to something this Tuva site will accept. I changed it to IE8 and installed the latest version of Silverlight for good measure.
I know you're being facetious, but it's fairly obvious China could build large numbers of landing craft. They manufacture sophisticated electronics and all sorts of other products that require high skilled or high tech manufacturing.
In that way you could say China today is similar to the USA before WW2. It has a large yet technologically second class military and a massive industrial base. If they were to be provoked, it's clear they could turn that capacity over to military production and stand a real chance of "winning" - insofar as it would be possible to win such an inevitably brutal conflict - a sustained conflict with the USA.
Slashdot Mirror
Slashdot will stop linking to trolls when they stop generating pageviews.
If you want Florian to go away, stop reading this thread and don't enter into any further discussion.
I've often wondered if maybe there's just a problem with certain models of phones using chemicals that are harmful to human health. Holding them next to your head would cause you to inhale any vapour they give off and lead to slightly elevated risk.
It could be the case that certain phones manufacturers are doing this inadvertently or it's something used in the manufacture of certain phones that has a small but significant risk. Anyone care to comment?
Firstly, call me Nick.
Secondly, I claimed that a coal plant releases more nuclear waste into the atmosphere than a properly controlled nuclear plant. It doesn't matter where the rest of the coal goes, the point I was trying to make is that coal produces nuclear waste too. You start out with a big pile of coal and you end up with a big pile of ash that's radioactive. You also vent a lot of waste into the atmosphere too.
I never claimed that you can't affect radioactive decay with chemical processes. The linked SciAm article doesn't seem to make that claim either.
For the record, I think both coal and nuclear are terrible ways of generating power. Unfortunately it currently seems that we, as a society, have to pick between the two.
I was making the comparison to coal because the post I was initially replying to was characterising nuclear power engineers as intrinsically unethical, so I was using coal power as a comparator to show that they're no less ethical than workers in other polluting industries.
Hope that clears things up for you.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste
The URL says it all. Burning stuff makes radioactive waste.
Well managed nuclear is easily better than coal. The problems around nuclear are political and economic, not technical; i.e. the politicians and the beancounters need to step aside and throw money at designing safe reactors.
The difference between coal and nuclear is that coal is designed to vent its waste into the atmosphere every day whereas with nuclear when that occurs, it's global news.
Nuclear engineers, most of them, have been supporting a deadly industry which will inevitable harm people.
That's true of almost every industry you could care to mention. A coal burning power plant will release more radiation every year than a normally operating nuclear plant will in its lifetime.
Speaking of coal, all the minerals we depend upon for our way of life are provided to us by miners. They do dangerous work deep underground and, no matter how safe we make it, some of them will die. Our entire way of life is built on their blood; our lives are indebted to theirs.
You might then ask,what the point of industry is then if it's so dangerous and deadly? Well, it builds us a civilisation that is largely free of the constraints of a life built on subsistence agriculture. It's less deadly but still not perfect, just better in some ways.
Apparently it's a guide star laser: http://www.toptica.com/pr_news/news/news_single/article//toptica-is-awarded-5-mio-EUR-contract-by-eso-for-sodium-guide-star-facility.html
So I'd guess they use it to make sure they're pointing in the right direction when taking observations.
The big question here is, what about Android mods like CyanogenMod and non-official stores?
Cyanogenmod doesn't include the official Android Market app, you have to get it separately. I would assume that non-official stores like the Amazon store have licensed this patent.
So, instead, you want Apple to do all that due diligence for you, and if they cannot forsee every single future occurrence, then THEY get to assume ALL of YOUR risk
Except in this instance, it seems to be the case that Apple was successfully trolled by Lodesys and only licensed the patent for themselves, rather than all the downstream developers they knew they were distributing software too.
To my mind, that's a clear demonstration of bad faith and I would hope that these independent App Store developers manage to get something out of Apple.
Because it could make business in the EU problematic. If a foreign media organisation were to be found in contempt of court (in this case impossible as I doubt Geeknet Inc. has been served with this injunction) then the company directors could become the subject of a European Arrest Warrant.
It's the same reason that libel tourism is so popular; unless you have no intention of entering or doing business in the EU, you need to abide by the rules of our courts.
Not being mainstream media, we've no legitimate way of finding out the details of the injunction, yet we can be prosecuted if one of our forum members publishes the allegations.
I thought that in order to be bound by an injunction, you had to be served it?
As I understand it, every time a superinjunction is issued it gets sent out to a massive number of media organisations telling them that there is an injunction that they can't report on, but not revealing what the injunction is about. That's how everyone in the media knows which injunctions they can't report on.
Even in the 80s it was a load of crap. The kind of jitter that was possible from an average working (i.e. non broken) CD player would cause such tiny frequency shifts that even someone with perfect pitch couldn't hear them.
Or how about approximately 4.4cm/s?
It's confusion around units of the kind you're encouraging that caused the loss of Mars Climate Orbiter! :)
Also note that people climb extremely slowly. Over a long term, best expressed as seconds per foot rather than ft/sec.
I think you mean best expressed as inches per second or even better, cm/s. If you were moving seconds per foot then you'd be in some kind of Braid style dreamworld where motion in a given direction affected the flow of time.
In order to distribute patented GPL software you have to provide full indemnity to all downstream recipients from any litigation. If Red Hat has reached a patent settlement and thereby acquired a license from a patent troll, that license has to indemnify all downstream recipients otherwise Red Hat themselves become in breach of the GPL.
I'm amazed nobody else on /. has picked up on this. I guess place really is in the doldrums...
I've Googled for a good 5mins to no avail. The best stats I can find suggest that the average balance for a 401K is around $20k - a pitiful amount to try and buy an annuity with - but that's not what this thread is about. I found a link from 2001 claiming that 50% of Americans have no savings whatsoever, which would easily make that the modal amount.
Also, your searchbox assumes that people have been saving at that rate constantly for 22yrs. You're ignoring inflation and how some years inflation might have eroded savings and other years low inflation allowed people to build savings.
Basically, you've yet to convince me that the average American has anywhere near $20,000 in cash they can get hold of in short order to spend on things like computers.
My understanding is that the GPL carries with it patent licenses. Red Hat can't license patents for just its own customers.
Reading section 11 of GPLv3 and section 7 of GPLv2 it seems fairly clear that unless Red Hat is licensing for all downstream recipients (which would essentially mean the entire GPL ecosystem, as anyone who wants a particular patent license would just have to make a derivative from the Red Hat code) they can't distribute.
I bet $20,000 is the mean amount in savings, which would be pushed up by all the {m,b}illionaires.
I wonder what the modal average savings is? I bet it's a lot lower.
Did anyone else mirror this? I'm just getting a 403.
Sorry for the late reply, but that's holding the mainstream responsible for the atrocities of the minority,
Most mainstream Muslims drink, smoke and womanise. You might not believe that, but it's true. My experience of Muslims is they are as "Muslim" as most people are "Christian". It's just a basic a cultural identity.
How happy would you be if you had to defend Christianity just because your parents were Christian and you vaguely identified as such? That's the situation most Muslims find themselves in.
Again, sorry for the late reply, but the main difference between Islam and Christianity is the theological interpretation of the text.
Christianity ranges from fundamental interpretations (Westboro Baptist) all the way to Anglican (it doesn't really matter if you believe in the literal interpretation of the bible as long as you follow the "spiritual" interpretation, as explained to me). It seems to me that, due to the textual similarities, Islam can't be far behind the wide range of theological interpretations that Christianity has and henceforth is rapidly approaching a reformist / protestant revolution in a similar manner.
The people who espouse those kinds of views here in the UK organise with fascist groups like the BNP and the EDL. Not that I'm calling you a fascist, mind, I'm just pointing out that what you're saying would be right at home on a fascist march.
The main problem with your argument is that it's all in your head. Instead of "think[ing] about it" why not, you know, go out and meet some Muslims? You'll quickly find that Muslims prepared to engage in violent jihad are a tiny minority and they have very little support in the mainstream community.
As an atheist I find all religion to be unnecessary but if I'm being honest, Islam isn't that much different to Christianity. Most Muslims are Muslim in the same sense that a lot of people self-identify as Christian. They drink, they smoke, they have sex before marriage and they don't go to mosque / church. The only people who think otherwise are people who don't have much contact Muslims.
Also, blame should be directed at the media for constantly giving radical clerics who have no real support a massive platform. That crazy cleric who claims he'll be protesting the royal wedding has previous form. He has previously tried to organise a demo at Wootton Bassett, a town where mourning for soldiers often takes place due to the nearby airforce base, only to call the demo off at the last minute amid claims by local police that he'd never been in touch to organise it in the first place.
Basically, Islam4UK is a tiny organisation led by a guy who knows how to generate column inches. The newspapers give him space because it sells papers. The much bigger problem are the fascist mobilisations led by the BNP and EDL that have generated real electoral victories. That kind of stuff plays right into the hands of organisations like Islam4UK and Hizb ut-Tahrir who want Muslims to be the victims of hate attacks so they can organise them along radical, violent and sectarian lines.
Wow, that's pretty incredible.
With that kind of firepower I can see how it's possible to disable an entire brigade with a few planes and bombs.
Use this extension to change Chrome's UA string to something this Tuva site will accept. I changed it to IE8 and installed the latest version of Silverlight for good measure.
I know you're being facetious, but it's fairly obvious China could build large numbers of landing craft. They manufacture sophisticated electronics and all sorts of other products that require high skilled or high tech manufacturing.
In that way you could say China today is similar to the USA before WW2. It has a large yet technologically second class military and a massive industrial base. If they were to be provoked, it's clear they could turn that capacity over to military production and stand a real chance of "winning" - insofar as it would be possible to win such an inevitably brutal conflict - a sustained conflict with the USA.
Out of interest, what single bomb can kill 3-5.000 people?